Sentence examples for he presided for from inspiring English sources

Now that they have decided to put former President Hosni Mubarak on trial, I hope Egyptians add to his indictment that he presided for 30 years over a country where nearly half the population lives on $2 day and 20 percent are unemployed while it is importing low-wage manufactured goods — a stuffed camel, no less — from China.

Yet he presided for six years over a government whose legacy endures to this day.

They include the enormous and laborious Oxford edition of the complete works, an enterprise over which he presided for years.

In 2008 Mr Andreotti, by then an 89-year-old senator-for-life, rang one when he presided for a day at the opening session of the Senate.

He ministered in Manhattan to AIDS patients and the homeless and revitalized a struggling Upper West Side parish where he presided for 14 years.

He presided for 14 years over a central security force of nearly 400,000 — roughly the size of the Egyptian Army and widely considered more important to the Mubarak government.

His conservative social policies, and staunch support for President George Bush on Iraq, have made all those freedom fights and anti-Vietnam war demos of the 1960s and early '70s count for nothing.To many from Generations X and Y, he is a hero for the economic boom over which he has presided for more than 11 years.

From his 24th-floor office in the Municipal Building, where he has presided for nearly two decades over a talk show on radio station WNYC, he looks north and west across a cityscape that never fails to make the heart skip a beat.

The process of crafting a tax bill, over which he had presided for months as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was in a shambles, the committee having retreated behind closed doors after Senator Packwood abruptly suspended the public sessions.

PARIS — On one wall of his large, bright office overlooking the Place de la Concorde in Paris is a vast map of the world dotted with markers denoting the automobile clubs that are part of the International Automobile Federation, over which he has presided for a year.

Fattening Frogs for Snakes is the title of a song by the great bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson, and it seems a good way of describing Ecclestone's recent behaviour as he taps new sources of revenue in order to increase the monetary value of the sport over which he has presided for three and a half decades.